Style Scout: Courtney Ricketts
Fashion influences? Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra and Erykah Badu
Style Scout: Arron Atchison
How would you describe your style? Freakin’
Offbeat Occupations: Liberty Tax waver dances to beat of his MP3 player
Trayvan Sullivan, 29, swaggers up and down the sidewalk near the corner of Wisconsin and Sixth streets. He is wearing a Statue of Liberty costume with a green velour robe and a 7-point crown. Slung on his shoulders is a large white sign that says “Honk if you Love Liberty.”
Style Scout: Shelby and Lacey Theis
Fashion influences? Ranch-hand style or anything that one would wear to work on a farm.
Style Scout: Blue the husky and Al Jones
Dream Job: I would like to host national televised news and tell the truth for once
Lawrence Arts Center plane crash
A 23'x20' cardboard airplane is launched off the roof of the Lawrence Arts Center, Wednesday, February 1st in preparation for "On Screen Offspring," a series of one act plays written and directed by area filmmakers opening on February 3rd.
Pivot point: Taking careers in a new direction
Career changes throughout the timeline of anyone’s working life are to be expected, through job changes, promotions, retirement, etc. But sometimes a career change is a dramatic one, a quantum leap of fields that requires courage, foresight, hard work and more than a pinch of luck.
Burns' Night celebration Scottish fun 'for everyone'
You don’t have to be Scottish to appreciate ol’ Rabbie Burns, kilts, bagpipes and maybe even a little haggis. You just have to like a good party.
Style Scout: Robert Knapp
How would you describe your style? Dead-head shaman punk
Style Scout: Joanna Fewins
Current favorite fashion trends: I am loving ankle boots, usually without heels, right now; also known as booties!
Offbeat Occupation: Local writer is serious about comics
Jai Nitz’s desk contains objects sacred to comic book lovers: a statue of Jack Kirby, an Aztek action figure and a copy of Wally Wood’s 22 Panels — a strip that outlines the art of comics. The last item is significant if only because writing comics is what Nitz does. A rare thing, to turn a childhood passion into a career, but Nitz has done it.
Style Scout: Malcolm Miller
Fashion trends you hate: Wearing sports apparel if not currently attending a sporting event
Style Scout: Jessica Birney
How would you describe your style? A little bit of everything, kind of edgy. In one word? Costumes.
Offbeat Occupation: Bowler combines passion with work
Kristal Scott Wilson is a former professional bowler who now works at Jayhawk Bowling Supply, 355 Iowa.
Lawrence Locale: Spencer Research Library full of hidden treasures on KU's campus
It’s one of the easier places to miss on Kansas University’s campus, so hidden that it completely eluded me for the four years I spent earning a bachelor’s degree at KU. It is the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, and it is located squarely behind Strong Hall at 1450 Poplar Lane — “probably the shortest street on campus,” says Spencer’s head librarian, Beth Whittaker.
Museum fundraiser toasts era of the speakeasy
Deep within the archives of the Watkins Community Museum of History is a poster with a classical female figure standing on a pedestal surrounded by somber-looking people. It reads, “Observance and enforcement not repeal.”
Style Scout: Erin Shadensack
Fashion influences? Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Peggy Bundy.
Offbeat Occupations: Yoga teacher a trainer in graceful aging
The sounds of a sitar and a pair of hand drums flow from a stereo in the corner of the room. Ten colored yoga mats are splayed across the center of the floor.
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